Holiday Home Fun - WILD ABOUT GRADE 1



Holiday Home Fun!

Here are some optional activities to complete at home over Spring/Songkran Break if you choose.

1. Take photos of homes made of interesting or unusual building materials. Bring them to school to share for our Homes unit of inquiry! Do this especially if you travel for the break.

2. Angry Bird Math

3. Creative Writing

4. Wacky Websites

Creative Writing

Choose one of these ideas as the start of a story:

1. Imagine you had a hundred dollars, but you couldn’t keep it. You had to give it away to a person or charity. Who would you give it to? What would you want them to do with it?

2. Describe one time when you were brave.

3. If you could cook any meal for your family, what would you cook? Describe the meal and tell how you would make it.

4. Imagine you woke up and saw a dinosaur in your backyard. Write a story telling what you see and do.

5. Imagine you opened your own restaurant. Tell the name of your restaurant. Explain what the restaurant looks like, who works there, and what you serve.

6. Describe your favorite character from a book, a movie, or television.

7. Write a story titled, “My Journey on a Pirate Ship.” You and your friends can star in the story.

8. If you could have any animal for a pet, what would it be? Describe the pet and how you would take care of it.

9. Do you have any brothers or sisters? If you do, tell what they’re like. If not, tell whether or not you would like to have a brother or sister.

10. What do you like best about your home?

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Retell the story of Bad Jelly the Witch by Spike Milligan. You can tell the whole story, part of the story in detail, or a new story about one of the characters.

Bad Jelly the witch

Binklebonk the tree goblin

Silly Sausage the grasshopper

Fluffybum the cat, Pom-Pom the dog

Jim the eagle, Dullboot the giant

Tim and Rose, Lucy the Cow

Dinglemouse, Mudwiggle,

shark, lion, apple tree

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Wacky Websites

Starfall



This site is designed for KG-Grade 1 kids and has a lot of educational language, mathematic and holiday fun games and stories.

Storyline Online



Celebrities read their favorite stories online.

Wacky web tales



While this site is designed for Grades 3 and up, it would still be fun with the help of an adult or an older sibling. Grade 1 students should know that a noun is a naming word, a verb is a doing word, and an adjective is a describing word.

EZ School



A bunch of language and mathematic games.

IXL



There are a lot of math games on this site. Some of them require a little reading help.

Fun Brain



A mixture of educational, and just-for-fun arcade games.

Our website!

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Have a fantastic 3 week vacation! See you on the 22nd of April.

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